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British director Mike Newell will film the action-adventure video-game adaptation Prince of Persia: Sands of Time in Morocco for producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney, Variety reported.

Prince of Persia has a script by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (The Day After Tomorrow) and video-game creator Jordan Mechner. The video game spawned six installments and numerous spinoffs, boosting Disney's hopes for a lucrative new franchise.

The choice of Morocco as a shooting location will be a boost for the North African country's film business. Ridley Scott's Body of Lies and Paul Greengrass' untitled Iraq war thriller both recently wrapped significant shoots there.

Prince of Persia will also film in London's Pinewood Shepperton studios. The project is currently in preproduction. The Moroccan section of the shoot is expected to start in mid-June.

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Source: SciFi Weekly (March 10, 2008) @ SciFi.com

I have the Two Thrones pc version to play merrily on my laptop and I am thoroughly obsessed (although Assassin's Creed definitely trumps Prince of Persia - sorry Prince! ^^)

I think I will die happily astounded. :D


In further news, Watchmen - graphic novel extraordinaire - is also in production and they have their fabulous blog at http://rss.warnerbros.com/watchmen/!